Honey trap - Definition

A honey trap is a form of sting operation, in which wrong doers are lured into revealing themselves to a policing organisation. Where a sting operation targets a known or suspected individual and attempts to trap them committing a specific case of crime, a honey trap establishes a general lure to attract unknown criminals.

So for example, the police might fit a car with hidden cameras and leave it in an area known for its problems with car crime as a honey trap. The expectation being that the car will eventually be stolen, recording the evidence in the process.

On the internet, the Honeynet Project (http://project.honeynet.org) attempts to attract and watch hackers breaking in to a number of network systems. In particular it monitors changes in routine and automated hacker activity, such as port scanning. See also Honeypot

The term is also used in detective novels and espionage novels to describe a trap using some form of sexual enticement.

External links

• The Honeynet Project (http://project.honeynet.org)

Example Usage of Honey